There should be some video showing end to end configuration with Data Architecture which would really help. Such high level overviews are everywhere so it's easy to find.

Your voice is quite rugged or stretched up or because of the audio recording quality...if you may speak slowly and distinctively, it will help..even KZbin caption is miss-capturing some of your words of your voice. Thanks. I specifically liked your approch and organisation for content for this presentation. So thanks for that 👍

I like your vids! You deserve more subs. If I was you I would look into using smzeus . c o m! It will help you promote your videos!!!

The Webinar was awesome with the time limit you are able to teach as much as possible you can. Can you start a KZbin session on this XML Authoring topic by Topic, I would like to learn in detail. Thanks you Sir

good to learn

Wow.... this presenter is really good... no bull ... just good, solid, clear info. Agree with LitZebra that the quality of the audio was off but otherwise, this guy is well worth his doughnuts ! Suggestion. when you mention all those links, add a little note to the KZbin description or add a timeline - something to make it easy for the reader to refer back to...

Interesting. I wonder if SDL is somehow involved in creating this using its matching technology.

#Information

Why do most webinars suck? The audio is usually so compressed as to make it painful to listen to. Sorry. Sounds like an interesting talk, but I cannot listen with this poor audio.

For the session description, the slides, session reviews, the tweet roundup, and links to both DCL and Single-Sourcing Solutions, view the event page: www.single-sourcing.com/events/conquering-mountain-legacy-data/

DITA is so hard because the supporting documentation is so complex - there is a lack of clarity for each document topic. DITA is so hard because the tools used to manage DITA are not sophisticated enough. Authors are quite happy to change style to accommodate DITA but resent the steep learning curve for using the particular tool.

Great content, thank you

It's great that this is free information and thank you for sharing this, but the one thing I would ask is that perhaps more academics and professionals take a better look at the webinars of marketing professionals (I have watched/listened to hundreds of hours of webinar education given by marketing professionals; I have also watched many academics [from various Big Ten & research universities] give poorly conducted webinars). I can honestly say that saying "uhm" in between too much of everything that you say does NOT instill confidence in the listener that the user's information is precise and factual and that the giver of the information is an expert in their field. It sounds like this presenter and their introducer may not have listened to themselves on recording to correct this speech issue. It is also best to do a *sound check* of each person's location/phone/microphone or Skype prior to the webinar. The sound quality is very poor making it almost unbearable to listen to. I just listened to another webinar before this one and the sound was perfect; this one, not so much. Please also make sure that people have water with them... a few of these people sounded parched and needed to clear their throat too much- too distracting from the material. It's too bad that much of this overshadowed the material-at-hand. Also, to engage a listener merely "telling" us the information in a dry, factual way like I am in a boring college class is not engaging. Here is where listening to some marketing gurus do their webinars would also teach best-practices. The best webinars are ones where the presenters are PASSIONATE about their subject and that is conveyed through their voice and attitude. These people sound down/depressed and/or semi-bored and super, super dry about this topic. Best of luck in polishing up future presentations and webinars. Again, thanks for sharing the materials.

I'm new to DITA so excuse me if this is a naive question: I just read the pdf you have on your website for this presentation. The slide titled "Why does this feature exist?" lists audience, products, platforms, etc. Looks a lot like a list of ditaval attributes. You don't mention ditaval in this video... can keyrefs and conkeyrefs supplant ditavals entirely, or is there still a role for ditavals?

One thing I'll point out to anyone studying this closely: Boz neglects to mention that the keyref attribute for "legal", which is used to create the link for the word "Windows", is set in the reuse files (e.g., usa_values.dita), not in the welcome.dita topic. (Trying to find that did throw me off for a few minutes.) So the "Windows" keyword you see in the final Welcome output is produced by both a conkeyref (in welcome.dita, which brings it in) and a keyref (in xx_values), making it a link.

Sorry, forgot to include the link.. It's available in the information above, now!

Great information! Just wondering if you are going to make the slides available for download? Thanks!

Good for people who do not know about DITA